Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.

The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident.

The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.